#maintain

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. ↗

#apparatus #belief #effect #elicit #maintain

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#american #attempt #capitalism #family #industry

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#also #any #bare #being #cannot

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#called #death #definitely #freed #injured

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#freedom #importance #justice #maintained #neither

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness. ↗

— Jeff Landry

#commercial #competitiveness #economic #encourage #importance

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#fair #flourish #framework #maintain #monitor

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#cares #different #else #idea #interesting

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me. ↗

— John Lurie

#approach #i #image #maintained #me

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting. ↗